#uniqueness

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#individuals #life #self #uniqueness #life

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#uniqueness #nature

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #nature #only #symbol #uniqueness

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#definitely #home #space #uniqueness

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #creative #individuality #power #uniqueness

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #individuality #libba-bray #quirks #uniqueness

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic. ↗

— Ken Follett

#beauty #uniqueness #beauty

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bring #chanel #designer #face #fashion

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#absurdity #anti-absurdity #art #bi #bipolar

Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness! ↗

— Kate Morton

#uniqueness #life